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petiolate as much as 18 cm. long ; lamina somewhat rigid 

 and thick coriaceous narrowly oblong as much as 17 cm. 

 long 4-5 cm. broad, apex obtuse somewhat rostrate mucro- 

 nate, margin somewhat revolute cartilaginous obscurely 

 undulate not roughened, base narrow cuneate ; both surfaces 

 very glabrous and mat ; upper surface olivaceous with a 

 grooved midrib slightly reddening, the primary veins about 

 18 pairs slightly grooved, the rest of the surface most 

 minutely papillate; under surface glaucous, the midrib 

 raised, the primary veins reddening and like the ultimate 

 reticulation of the veinlets not prominent, the rest of the 

 surface smooth obscurely orange-punctulate, the epidermis 

 marked by minute globose papillae ; petiole scarcely 1 cm. 

 long thick glabrous. Flowers about 15 in a racemose- 

 umbel with an axis about 12 cm. long sparingl}^ but in the 

 axils of the bracts densely rufously floccose ; fertile bracts 

 membranaceous chestnut-brown about 2*5 cm. long and 

 9 mm. broad, outside densely sericeous with white and 

 rufous hairs, inside in the upper part more or less adpressedly 

 pubescent; bracteoles narrowly ligulate about 1 cm. long 

 and almost 1 mm. broad exceeding the pedicel densely 

 pilose ; pedicel about 8 mm. long somewhat thick sprinkled 

 with floccose hairs and glabrescent. Calyx minute about 

 2 mm. long cupular very glabrous, lobes ovate or rounded 

 or deltoid with a subfimbriate margin. Corolla dark 

 crimson widely tubular-campanulate as much as 4 cm. 

 long, outside and inside glabrous, marked by a blotch but 

 without any spots, 7-lobed ; lobes rounded not large about 

 1'3 cm. long by 16 mm. broad emarginate subcrenulate. 

 Stamens 14 unequal, longer about 3'3 cm. long, shorter 

 about 2 cm. long ; anthers dark purple about 8 nmi. long ; 

 filaments scarcely widening to the base and quite glabrous. 

 Disk quite glabrous. Gynaeceum about 3'5 cm. long 

 slightly exceeding the stamens and shorter than corolla; 

 ovary cylindric narrow slightl}^ grooved dark purple quite 

 glabrous about 5 mm. long ; style glabrous slender slightly 

 expanding into a lobulate not discoid stigma. 



ulam, staininum 10-12 filamenta basi pubescentia, discura floccosuni, 

 stigma discoideum possedit ; Rh. htjlothreptum, Bali. f. et W. W. Sm. 

 foliis lanceolatis, petiolis glandulosis, pedicellis ultra 1 cm. longis gland- 

 ulosis, calyce pubernlo, corolla intus staminumque filamentis puberulis, 

 disco pubernlo distinguitur. 



